There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.
BEN ELTONMy advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
More Ben Elton Quotes
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The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.
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The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
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No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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I don’t consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.
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You think I look like a teletubby?
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This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Artists don’t create society, they reflect it
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I’m lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.
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My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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